Acclaimed trumpeter Clark Terry was born on this day in 1920.


At George Washington’s death on this day in 1799, he owned 317 enslaved Africans. His last will decreed that they be freed at the death of his wife Martha Washington.
John Mercer Langston was born on this day in 1829. He was a lawyer, abolitionist, educator, and a diplomat who represented the United States to the Dominican Republic. He was also the first Dean of the esteemed Howard University Law School in Washington, DC.
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